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Originally Posted by Quoth
it's complicated. Complain to Disney and USA Government.
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True, true words. Complicated and head-banging, hair-pulling FRUSTRATING!
I've a book. Non-fiction. Limited edition, only 850 copies printed, first published in 1930. So, two more years until public domain in USA.
Fun facts, the author died young, sudden heart attack, in 1940.
So you think YAY, MobileRead eligible!
Not so fast. The primary reason the book has any value are the ILLUSTRATIONS, which are lavish, and in case of the black-and-white illustrations, mostly sketched on site, DURING, and
of the events the author is narrating!
The book has become much harder to find because people literally CUT UP COPIES to sell the illustrations separately as wall art on eBay.
The author only wrote ONE book. Not a writer by profession, though his text is kind of fun. Much of the book is illustration! So it doesn't feel right to present the text
without the accompanying illustration.
The illustrator is well-known and very collected. But HE didn't die until 1958, so FIVE more years before MR eligible.
Meanwhile, the whole shebang is public domain as far as I can determine, under
Canadian copyright law.
It is, indeed, complicated!
